Competition is an interesting thing. For people, it’s mostly about having a good time pitting themselves in some way against other people to see how they stack up. As we’ll see, for other living things on this planet, competition can be a life and death struggle.

So, let’s get right to it.

Teresita joins us for the first time by way of Robin’s blog to show us a running boy competing for his school. She mentions she was experimenting with her camera. Her experiment in panning came out with just enough sharpness on the subject with blurring in the background and arms and legs to show the speed of the runner.

If anything this assignment did, it got Karma to visit her state fair for the first time in a decade. 🙂 She found, as I did, a diversity of competitions at the Big E and probably ate some fried foods along the way, too.

How can I say Michaela’s submission is cheating? I, too, loved playing with my race car sets (oh, I went through a few of them) when I was young. Of course, it’s competition. Especially since it got Dad to play, too!

While I could have used some of the competition photos I took at my state’s fair, I knew of an annual competition which was upcoming at local festival featuring kids, grease, poles, bell ringing and a time clock I thought would be much more fun and very unique to photograph.

Normally I get one or two late entries. They are posted a few hours or within a day. However, Barabara came in three days late! If it was not about cake and rice krispie treats, I might not have allowed it. 😉

I want to thank all of you for participating in this assignment. I enjoyed seeing what each of you choose to use in showing competition. Concepts can be hard to photograph.

The skill you are all showing these days is phenomenal from showing motion, using macro, story telling photography, use of photo essays and so on. We have all come a long ways in the last three years since I started these assignments. I have learned so much from each of you. Thanks, again, and I hope you’ll all join in this November for the last one for 2011.

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